Activities of Marie-Pierre VIEU related to 2018/0206(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) At Union level, the European Semester of economic policy coordination is the framework to identify national reform priorities and monitor their implementation. Member States develop their own national multiannual investment strategies in support of those reform priorities. Those strategies should be presented alongside the yearly National Reform Programmes as a way to outline and coordinate priority investment projects to be supported by national and/or Union funding. TheyArticle 151 TFEU and the rights provided for in the European Social Charter establish the framework for the priorities of the Union's and Member States' strategies for implementing the ESF+. These strategies should also serve to use Union funding in a coherent manner and to maximise the added value of the financial support to be received notably from the programmes supported by the Union under the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, the European Investment Stabilisation Function and InvestEU, where relevant.
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Union is confronted with structural challenges arising from economic globalisation, the management of migration flows and the increased security threat, clean energy transiimpact of austerity policies, the management of migration, technological change and an increasingly ageing workforce and growing skills and labour shortages in some sectors and regions, experienced especially by SMEs. Taking into account the changing realities of the world of work, the Union should be prepared for the current and future challenges by investing in relevant skills, making growth more inclusive and by improving employment and social policies, including in view of labour mobility.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) Member States should commit to gender budgeting, with fixed target values (share of programme funds allocated to women) in the context of budget management and the evaluation of their operational programmes. Gender budgeting is an important instrument in equal opportunities policy for making gender gaps in ESF+ participation transparent.
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The ESF+ should contribute to the reduction of poverty by supporting national schemes aiming to alleviate food and material deprivation and promote social integration of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion and the most deprived. With a view that at Union level at least 4% of the resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management supports the most deprived, Member States should allocate at least 24% of their national resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to address the forms of extreme poverty with the greatest social exclusion impact, such as homelessness, child poverty and food deprivation. Due to the nature of the operations and the type of end recipients, it is necessary that simpler rules apply to support which addresses material deprivation of the most deprived.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) To ensure that the social dimension of Europe as set out in the European Pillar of Social Rights is duly put forward and that a minimum amount of resources is targeting those most in need Member States should allocate at least 2530% of their national ESF+ resources of the ESF+ strand under shared management to fostering social inclusion.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States and, where appropriate the Commission, shall foster synergies and ensure coordination, complementarity and coherence between the ESF+ and other Union funds, programmes and instruments such as Erasmus, and the Asylum and Migration Fund and the Reform Support Programme, including the Reform Delivery Tool and the Technical Support Instrument, both in the planning phase and during implementation. Member States and, where appropriate the Commission, shall optimise mechanisms for coordination to avoid duplication of effort and ensure close cooperation between those responsible for implementation to deliver coherent and streamlined support actions.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
In addition to the minimum allocation of 30% of ESF+ resources under shared management to objectives (vii) to (x) of Article 4(1), Member States shall allocate at least 24% of their ESF+ resources under shared management to the specific objective of social inclusion of the most disadvantaged and/or addressing material deprivation as set out in points (x) and (xi) of Article 4(1).
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall allocate an appropriate amountt least 2% of ESF+ resources under shared management in each programme for the capacity building of local and regional authorities, social partners and civil society organisations at national and European levels.
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
The resources referred to in Article 7(4) shall be programmed under a dedicated priority or programme. The co-financing rate for this priority or programme is set at 85%.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. At least 5% of ESF+ resources at national level, with the exception of technical assistance, shall be allocated to the priorities established in this article.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) the costs of accompanying measures undertaken by or on behalf of beneficiaries and declared by the beneficiaries delivering the food and/or basic material assistance to the most deprived persons at a flat-minimum rate of 5% of the costs referred to in point (a).
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) 2a. Eligible actions by cross- border partnerships or the stakeholders referred to in paragraph 2 shall be co- financed by the Union at 95% of the total eligible expenditure. Additional financial support will only be granted in the case of exceptional and sufficiently reasoned circumstances.